Word: softeners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...front in East Prussia, Free German propagandists with the Red Army microphone their ex-comrades to surrender. They helped soften the Wehrmacht for last summer's great defeat in White Russia. After that debacle, 17 Wehrmacht generals, including Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad, joined the Free Germans...
...further area where taste, artistry and individuality are paramount. No two master tuners will tune a piano exactly alike, nor will any master tune a piano the same way for different occasions. A piano that is perfectly tuned and "regulated" (by fluffing up the felt hammers to soften tone) for a broadcasting studio will sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann...
...many a U.S. serviceman, that the Vatican had worked indefatigably to mitigate the suffering of Rome's Jews during the Nazi occupation. The Rabbi said that the Pope himself had sometimes interceded with the Nazis. In some cases he saved Jewish lives, in others he was able to soften Nazi penalties...
Ambassador Thurston seemed to have tried, so far as correctness allowed, to soften the Dictator's vengeance. But during the days of terror which followed the revolt, all El Salvador was sheltering fugitives. Priests lent their robes. Protestant ministers helped. The embassies of Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala, Spain (and probably others) granted sanctuary. President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, though a tyrant himself, allowed fugitives to cross his borders, gave them money to get to Mexico. But the U.S. Embassy closed its doors against them...
...Unconditional surrender" was coined at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. Prime Minister Churchill pointedly gave President Roosevelt full credit for it, told the House of Commons that he "concurred." Its acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...